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Guest posts from operators, agencies, and thought leaders across B2B tech.
Fivetran and dbt Labs Are Now One Company
Fivetran and dbt Labs completed their merger on June 1, 2026, and relicensed dbt's new engine under Apache 2.0 the same day. Here is what the deal actually combines, why it happened, and what to check before choosing sides in the ingestion-and-transformation layer of the data stack.
Bhavika J
Fintech Capital Piles Into Agentic Infrastructure as Rules Lag
Two large funding rounds in July show investors betting on AI agents running bank and brokerage decisions, while the CFPB's own agenda shows the data-access rules those agents depend on are still being rewritten.
Bhavika J
Google Cloud Outage Hits VMware Engine, Bare Metal in Netherlands
A power fault at a Google Cloud data center in the Netherlands knocked out VMware Engine, Bare Metal Solution and NetApp Volumes for nearly 15 hours on July 15, 2026.
Bhavika J
HubSpot Renames Commerce Hub to Revenue Hub, Adds Live Tax Calc
HubSpot has rebuilt its Commerce Hub into Revenue Hub, adding automated multi-country tax calculation and buy-now-pay-later checkout through Klarna and Affirm.
Bhavika J
Microsoft Discloses Critical Unauthenticated RDP Flaw, CVE-2026-56190
Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday includes a maximum-severity flaw in the Windows RDP server that lets an unauthenticated attacker run code on any exposed system with Network Level Authentication turned off.
Bhavika J
Dovetail and The Trade Desk Both Ship Data-to-Action Tools on July 14
A look at two same-day product launches, from Dovetail and The Trade Desk, that both turn stored customer and purchase data into something a system acts on without a person in the loop.
Bhavika J
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Theft of Hardware Trade Secrets
Apple filed suit against OpenAI, its hardware unit io Products, and two former Apple employees, alleging a coordinated campaign to steal confidential product designs ahead of OpenAI's push into consumer hardware.
Bhavika J
Perfect Corp Goes Private in Founder-Led $2-a-Share Buyout
Perfect Corp, the SaaS provider behind AI and AR try-on tools used by more than 800 beauty and fashion brands, agreed to go private in a deal led by founder Alice Chang at a 48% premium.
Bhavika J
HomeBase Rolls Out Simbe's Shelf-Scanning Robots Chainwide
HomeBase USA has expanded Simbe Robotics' Store Intelligence platform, including its Tally shelf-scanning robots, to all of its store locations.
Bhavika J
FDA Clears First Medical Device Built on a Patient-Facing LLM
The FDA has cleared UpDoc's insulin-titration software, the first medical device to put a patient-facing large language model in the loop of a treatment decision, alongside an $18 million seed round from Mayo Clinic and Eli Lilly.
Bhavika J
Spend Under Management Is Rising. Maverick Spend Isn't Going Away.
Procurement's headline control metric climbed to a record high in 2025, but "spend under management" and "compliant spend" measure two different things, and the gap between them is where maverick buying survives.
Bhavika J
Three Months In, the UK's Fair Work Agency Is Reshaping Payroll Compliance
The UK's new single labor enforcement body launched April 7, 2026 alongside first-day sick pay eligibility and a new six-year holiday pay recordkeeping duty. Three months in, payroll and HR teams are working through what the combined change means.
Bhavika J